... Gallery . ... Title: Astronomy Pictures . Description: A variety of astronomical images taken using RSAA telescopes. NOTE: All images and movies are copyright and must not be reproduced or mirrored in any form without written permission. Owner: Gallery Administrator . Sidebar Left . Sidebar Top . No Sidebar . Sidebar Bottom . Sidebar Right . ... Views: 10546 . By: Gallery Administrator . ... Views: 6259 . ... Images from external telescopes . Views: 1927 . ...

... 2010 . ... The following images are mosaics obtained on 03 August 2010 at the National Solar Observatory/Dunn Solar Telescope with the Interferometric Bidimensional Spectrometer (IBIS). ... The final images are approximately 238 x 242 arcseconds, or 4 x 4 arcminutes, with a pixel scale of 0.0976 arcseconds per pixel. ... The images show a broad range of typical chromospheric structures, including sunspots, superpenumbra, plage, filaments, and quiet internetwork. ...

M1 image More About M1 Nice Color Picture . ... M16 image More About M16 HST image . ... M31 image More About M31 Nice Color Picture . ... M42 image ; M43 image More About M42/43 Nice Color CCD Picture . M51 image More About M51 Color Image of M51 M51 Supernova . M57 image More About M57 Nice Color CCD Picture Very Deep M57 Image . ... M81 image More About M81 M81 Supernova Ultraviolet Image of M81 More about Ultraviolet Imaging . M82 image More About M82 M82 False Color M82 True Color . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Observing . ... Olympus Mons up close . ... Shown here are some images of the complex caldera on Olympus Mons that were taken by the orbiter.The summit of Olympus MonsMars Express returned this view of the complex caldera at the summit of Olympus Mons on Mars.. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

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Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... The unassuming star centered in this sky view will one day be our next door stellar neighbor. ... Spot The Planet . ... OK, it's a picture of the Sun (duh!), but can you spot the planet? Of course, most of the spots you've spotted are sunspots, as large or larger than planet Earth itself. ... Moon Struck . ... M83: The Southern Pinwheel Galaxy from VLT . ... Rhea: Saturns Second Largest Moon . ... Mars Polar Lander Target Ellipse . ... 1999 Leonid Fireball . ...

... March 24, 1996 . Comet Hyakutake's Closest Approach . ... Explanation: The above true color image of Comet Hyakutake was taken the night of March 21/22. Tonight, Comet Hyakutake will make its nearest approach to Earth, closing to a mere 10 million miles as it passes over the planet's Northern Hemisphere . ... For the rest of March and most of April Comet Hyakutake will be visible to Northern viewers (weather permitting). ... Comet Hyakutake Finder Chart . ... About APOD | ...

... Hubble Space Telescope News . ... Produce presentation images and illustrations from Hubble Space Telescope observations. ... Member of the Hubble Heritage Team, whose mission is to find and present the most beautiful images from the Hubble Space Telescope. ... Hubble News and Images . Bringing important Hubble science results to the media and the public. ... Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) . Center of science operations for the Hubble Space Telescope and my place of employment. ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... I have a fun video on how to stand an egg on end on my blog at Discover Magazine . ... At the end of the show, one of the characters looks up the words "egg" and "equinox" on the web... and says it sent him to "thingsthatarewrong.com". ... Bad Astronomy : Only on the day of the Vernal (spring) Equinox, can you stand a raw egg on its end. Good astronomy : If you can stand a raw egg on end, it has nothing to do with the Equinox. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... The frequency and properties of young tidal dwarf galaxies in nearby gas-rich groups . ... Gaseous material pulled from initial close encounters between galaxies can produce second-generation tidal dwarf galaxies (TDGs), which differ from first-generation `classical' dwarfs by their higher metal content and lack of dark matter. I present the results of a multi-wavelength investigation of the dwarf galaxy populations in three gas-rich interacting galaxy groups: NGC 871/7, NGC 3166/9, NGC 4725/47. ...

I was wondering what conditions should be met to have the "darkest" sky .. ... Upon the above publication of the Southern Galactic hemisphere, TunГ Tezel started seeking opportunities to create the Northern counterpart image. ... So, the initial quest of having the darkest possible sky have delivered us these two all-sky images of the two galactic hemispheres as seen from Planet Earth. Zoomable and 'full-screenable' fisheye view of the "darkest sky" Southern Galactic Hemisphere image. ...

The picture above was made with this demo POV file and this Mirror object POV file . ... This is a magnifying mirror with a light around it, on an articulated arm, designed for wall-mounting. ... Behind this mirror in the image are two more mirrors, one above showing the front, and one below showing the arm in a bent position, and the whole thing roated so that you are effectively looking "up" at it. ... The two images below show details of the base, and the back of the mirror. ...

. To see a Russian version of this page, click here . (Professor, Director of SAI. Graduated from the Moscow State University (MSU) in 1964, Ph.D. 1967, MSU, Dr. of Science 1975, MSU) . A member of IAU and EAS, IAU committees No 42, 27. Fields of interest: Stellar astrophysics, close binary systems, inverse problems in astrophysics. Send your mail to: cher@sai.msu.su .

Eyepieces Forum Message . Forums: . ... Eyepieces | ... Pictures . ... Posted by Jarvis Krumbein on November 2, 2003 05:23:47 UTC . ... I was having serious problems manhandling the tube assembly of the old setup around as the bloody thing was very heavy. ... Pictures - gjeckes - November 2, 2003 - 08:06 UTC . ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... Primary Mirror after being stripped and recoated in 3-layer protected silver (NiCr-Ag-NiCr) on 12 September 2009. image: CIMG7901.jpg . ... Primary Mirror held by (yellow) handling tool being lifted off transport container (note the tennis balls it rested on), to be put on wash cart during unpacking at VISTA on 29 March 2008. image: P1060207.jpg (taken 29/03/08) . ... VISTA Mirror Blank: Shape of 4m primary mirror blank being tested at Schott Glas in Germany. image: M1_shape_checking-300dpi.jpg . ...

... the shutters, loads . ... We have shutter/receiver protection to protect the receivers when we transmit with one of our transmitters (sband,430, hf). ... this is also controlled by the 430 ch load/antenna switch. closed always wins . ... shutter - open,close, or query the receiver/radar shutters . ... When the 430 dome is being used, we want to close all shutters, but leave the 430 dome receiver under control of the ch load/antenna switch (above the oscilloscopes in receiver room). ... shutter close...

... Galileo image of Ida asteroid 114k gif ; 41k jpg . ... Large false color image of asteroid 951 Gaspra 172k gif ; 33k jpg . ... Montage of 11 images taken by Galileo spacecraft of 951 Gaspra 75k gif 75k jpg . ... True Enhanced Color images 140k gif ; 18k jpg ; 596k tiff . ... HST images of 4 Vesta (rotation series) 25k jpg ; 216k gif ; caption . ... Comet Shoemaker-Levy imaged by Hubble/WFPC 145k gif . ... AAT image of Comet Halley (color) 40k gif . ... CCD image of comet Mueller 93a 96k gif . ...

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... Next: An IRAF-Independent Interface Up: Software Systems Previous: A New PROS . ... We present a high-level representation of the packages and tasks within IRAF/PROS. ... We have produced a high-level overview of PROS. ... The incremental stages were the short-term goals: a project overview diagram (i.e., an organizational diagram of software modules); high-level diagram (i.e., a bubble diagram of each module in the system); and unifying element tables (i.e., tables of task vs. software attributes)....

VIEW OUT OF THE WINDOW FROM LEXINGTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, USA . ... I am going to share this my teachers and students and hopefully we will get a few more different views of the Lexington, SC and our view out their window. ... 30, 1998, It is a beautiful day in Lexington, SC. ... The tress are all bare of leaves except for the tall lean pine trees with their green needles and pine cones. ... There ar 2 birds (black) that are in the Holly tree looking for food on the ground under my bird feeder. ...